Power Station Westerholt
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Power Station Westerholt was a coal fired power station in Gelsenkirchen-Westerholt, Germany. The power plant consisted of two units built in the 1960s, each capable of producing 150 MW of electricity. Its smokestack, built in 1997, is over 337 meters (1104 feet) tall, making it Germany's tallest chimney (even though the power station is no longer in use).
The power station was decommissioned on May 13, 2005 and the plan is to tear it down by the end of 2006. The chimney will be demolished on Sunday, November, 12th 2006, 11.00 am.
The height of the smokestack - 337 meters has been confirmed by the former operator of the power plant, e.on Kraftwerke.
It is the tallest structure in Northrhine-Westfalia. Before its erection this was FM and TV-mast Wesel. FM and TV-mast Wesel will be it again after its demolition.
A district heating plant, "FWK Westerholt", has been in operation on this site since the spring of 2004. There are six boilers there to provide heat for the district heating network of the northern Ruhr Area.
The Westerholt coal mine is located only a few hundred meters away. Both the power plant and the mine are on the city limits of Gelsenkirchen in the Hassel neighborhood and were named for the bordering (and at that time still independent) city of Westerholt in what was then Recklinghausen (district) (today the city is a part of the city of Herten and is named "Herten-Westerholt").
[edit] External links
- Photos of Power Station Westerholt [1]
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- http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b4758
- http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0025003
